Extro: That's the end of my rant ! Anyone else feel the same way as me ?

My simple answer to that is no. If you got UFB there would simply be one other person who misses out that would be using the exact same argument.

UFB is a 10 year project with no focus on residential until years years 6-10. NZ's biggest ever infrastructure project can't happen overnight.

If bandwidth is such a great concern have you inquired into the availability of existing PtP fibre? One would assume you'll be wanting a business plan with a higher CIR anyway, so pricing will be pretty similair to existing PtP pricing.

blair003: So if the application is of significant importance, it still really needs to be hosted at a data centre anyway.

QFT. If you are working from home and want some clients to see the results, that's fine - but you don't need UFB for this.

If you have an application that is consumed by the public, which requires time up (hardware maintenance, electricity, network) and performance then the application shouldn't be hosted at home. It should be in a datacentre - either colocated or hosted.

After all those years, with millions of pages served every month, hundreds of gigabytes of traffic some people are still surprised when they ask "so, do you run Geekzone from home" and I say "no, we have servers colocated in one of the Datacom datacentre in Auckland".

Zeon: You would be crazy to host anything important on a GPON service. Even P2P fibre only comes with an 8 hour SLA and even that doesn't mean it would be fixed within 8 hours if it was something big.

Host at a datacentre with multiple fibre feeders, electricity etc.

Agreed I have 2 VPS's hosted in NZ and Overseas I would not be a happy chappy if they were hosted in some random house for many reasons.

1.) Power (Residential area's low priority power) Auckland CBD gets high priority power. This makes me a happy chappy.2.) I've never heard of a residential user having backup generator in case of catastrophic sustained power failure.3.) Residential area's get Low SLA's when it comes to fixing faults.4.) I fibre redundancy most likely is not going to exists.

Saying that for UFB a test environment is perfect.... But I would not think that VDSL is too slow.

In regards to the rant though I can understand fully the frustration of not getting UFB....<RANT> I live in a UFB enabled area (Auckland CBD) however unable to get it and it looks like its been dumped into the too hard basket. I'm not expecting to be able to get UFB till around 2015-2017 </RANT>